I always found it hard to reconcile with people protesting racial profiling. I felt somehow, it was untrue but i guess it was because i had not come into the reality of such an incident.
As a research worker in Austria, and having lived in Germany for more than a year in the past, it was shocking to say the least of how border control police workers accurately profile anyone who did not look German ('wondering what that will even mean') traveling across the border.
On my way to a conference at Obergurgl, Tyrol from Linz, Upper Austria, i had to pass through Rosenheim , the border town between Germany and Austria only to be accosted by the police just about 100meters into German territory.
The police requested for my passport to which i handed over my Austrian residence permit. To my surprise, the police (Bundespolizei) did not accept the residence permit as a form of identity. I was kept at the Rosenheim police station for over two hours with police protection. They needed someone in Linz to go to my room, take my passport and send it to the Linz police station to be faxed to them.
As absurd as it sounds, this is how the German police reasons. I was probably going to be kept in the cells because the keys to my house were in my pocket as we argued on such a silly demand. How was someone ever going to enter my house, search my drawers, find a passport and report to the police station.
Unfortunately, this is what happens to many people. The police chef and his co-workers exploit foreigners at their will. Even after confirming by telephone conversation from the Linz Police station that i was a resident in Linz. The police officer looks at me and says, "what if you stole this residence card?"
I was charged 25€ for not carrying my passport and given a poorly written receipt that the police could not even spell "zwanzig" correctly or just didn't care because the money was just going to be shared amongst them.
Indeed, after such an incident, one has to come to reality that the Bundespolizei, Deutschland really has a specialty in racial profiling and that such issues are happening on daily basis. Who can really protect us from the police?
>>>this article was a contribution to the deutche welle article on racial profiling: http://www.dw.de/are-the-german-police-using-racial-profiling/a-16921363<<<<< (#polishit)
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
When Hitler Visited Linz.
Today marks the 75th year of Hitler's speech in Linz, Austria. Hitler was born in 1889 at the Gasthof zum Pommer, a town on the border with Bavaria, Germany. When Hitler was three, the family moved to Passau, Germany. In 1894 the family relocated to Leonding (near Linz). After many years of service in Germany and rising to the leadership of the country. He finally gets to visit Linz.
The preceding days were tumultuous and angst-gripping as He did not give a direct plan for his invasion. Nonetheless, the German troops walked into some Austrian cities and took over within days without waging war. Many Austrians were struck with fear about the Nazis' invasion. Some cities had armed themselves in the face of the invasion but his address from Linz changed the fate of many. With thunderous cheers of "Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!" broadcast across Bavaria and the other cities, the Nazis' had captured Austria. He was back to his land of birth and his aim was to rebuild it and give it a befitting status. The main city center in Linz used to be called "Adolf Hitler platz" during those years of the occupation...
From a Balcony at the old Rathaus (City center), this is what he had to say:
"I thank you all for your words of greetings. But above all I thank you who are assembled here and testified to the fact that it is not the will and desire of only a few to establish this great Reich of the German race, but the wish and the will of the German Volk (people)!"
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"There be those among you this evening, our reputed international truth-seekers, who will not only perceive for themselves this reality, but admit it afterward too. When i first set forth from this city, i carried within me exactly the same devout that fills me today. Try to fathom my inner emotion at having finally made this faithful pledge come true after so many long years."
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"The fact that providence once summoned me forth from this city to the leadership of the Reich, must have meant it was giving me a special assignment, and it can only have been the assignment of restoring my cherished home to the German Reich! "
"I...[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!] I have believed in this assignment, i have lived and fought for it, and i believe i have now fulfilled it!"
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"May you all witness and vouch for this! I do not know when you yourselves will be summoned. I hope the time is not far off. Then you shall be asked to stand up to your own pledge, and it is my belief that i will be able to point to my homeland with pride before the entire German Volk.
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"The outcome must then prove to the world that any further attempt to tear this Volk assunder will be in vain."
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"Just as you will then under an obligation to make your contribution to make your obligation to this German future, the whole of Germany is likewise willing to make its contribution."
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"And this, it is already doing today! May you see in the German soldiers who are marching here this very hour from all the Gaus of the Reich fighters willing and prepared to make sacrifices for the unity of the great German Volk as a whole, and for ..."
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"...and for the power and the glory and splendor of our Reich, now and forever!Deutschland, Sieg Heil!"
[Crowd shouting: Sieg Heil!Sieg Heil!Sieg Heil!]
The preceding days were tumultuous and angst-gripping as He did not give a direct plan for his invasion. Nonetheless, the German troops walked into some Austrian cities and took over within days without waging war. Many Austrians were struck with fear about the Nazis' invasion. Some cities had armed themselves in the face of the invasion but his address from Linz changed the fate of many. With thunderous cheers of "Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!" broadcast across Bavaria and the other cities, the Nazis' had captured Austria. He was back to his land of birth and his aim was to rebuild it and give it a befitting status. The main city center in Linz used to be called "Adolf Hitler platz" during those years of the occupation...
From a Balcony at the old Rathaus (City center), this is what he had to say:
"I thank you all for your words of greetings. But above all I thank you who are assembled here and testified to the fact that it is not the will and desire of only a few to establish this great Reich of the German race, but the wish and the will of the German Volk (people)!"
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"There be those among you this evening, our reputed international truth-seekers, who will not only perceive for themselves this reality, but admit it afterward too. When i first set forth from this city, i carried within me exactly the same devout that fills me today. Try to fathom my inner emotion at having finally made this faithful pledge come true after so many long years."
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"The fact that providence once summoned me forth from this city to the leadership of the Reich, must have meant it was giving me a special assignment, and it can only have been the assignment of restoring my cherished home to the German Reich! "
"I...[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!] I have believed in this assignment, i have lived and fought for it, and i believe i have now fulfilled it!"
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"May you all witness and vouch for this! I do not know when you yourselves will be summoned. I hope the time is not far off. Then you shall be asked to stand up to your own pledge, and it is my belief that i will be able to point to my homeland with pride before the entire German Volk.
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"The outcome must then prove to the world that any further attempt to tear this Volk assunder will be in vain."
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"Just as you will then under an obligation to make your contribution to make your obligation to this German future, the whole of Germany is likewise willing to make its contribution."
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"And this, it is already doing today! May you see in the German soldiers who are marching here this very hour from all the Gaus of the Reich fighters willing and prepared to make sacrifices for the unity of the great German Volk as a whole, and for ..."
[Crowd shouting: Hitler!Hitler!Hitler!]
"...and for the power and the glory and splendor of our Reich, now and forever!Deutschland, Sieg Heil!"
[Crowd shouting: Sieg Heil!Sieg Heil!Sieg Heil!]
Monday, August 1, 2011
Anders Behring Breivik and the future of Europe.
Anders Breivik, currently a household name in Norway and many other parts of the world,might be well remembered for the atrocities caused to Norwegians at large.In as much as there's hatred for his act of terrorism the issues he raises should not be swept under the carpet.
Anders' is not an isolated case of extreme hatred and indignation towards minority in Europe albeit the most horrendous. The increase in right wing groups across Europe is disturbing if not worrisome. Some commentator argue that the media has propagated a liberal message to hide these real issues.
Several cases of mistreatment towards immigrants have been left untouched to rot in dockets. Several groups keep springing with hatred. This is not a solely Jewish hatred but also hatred for non-european looking people. This of course is problematic; as such definitions are gradually becoming a nuace due to globalization.
Of course, the stereotype created by the media of immigrants and other minorities is the what is creating such hate. The numbers keep increasing of hate crimes, of abuse and or on-towards behaviour.
The future is looking like a racial war for supremacy and hate will be its fuel. The numerous far-right parties gaining power in the seat on EU and several european countries should be a fore-warning of what is to come. That many europeans are getting worried about their daily living and benefits.
---to be continued.
Anders' is not an isolated case of extreme hatred and indignation towards minority in Europe albeit the most horrendous. The increase in right wing groups across Europe is disturbing if not worrisome. Some commentator argue that the media has propagated a liberal message to hide these real issues.
Several cases of mistreatment towards immigrants have been left untouched to rot in dockets. Several groups keep springing with hatred. This is not a solely Jewish hatred but also hatred for non-european looking people. This of course is problematic; as such definitions are gradually becoming a nuace due to globalization.
Of course, the stereotype created by the media of immigrants and other minorities is the what is creating such hate. The numbers keep increasing of hate crimes, of abuse and or on-towards behaviour.
The future is looking like a racial war for supremacy and hate will be its fuel. The numerous far-right parties gaining power in the seat on EU and several european countries should be a fore-warning of what is to come. That many europeans are getting worried about their daily living and benefits.
---to be continued.
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